Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for May 23, 2023

Eventually we are resting in pieces.

Schopenhauer said that after we die, we will be the same as before we were born.

Worm food. Now nuclear war doesn’t sound so bad.

I once saw a meme that showed twins in the womb. One says to the other: “Do you think there’s life after birth?”

If we imagine that fetuses could contemplate such things, they would have no way of answering, because it would be beyond anything they had experienced. But, when the time came, they would discover that life continues, but in a different form than anything they had experienced so far. Could it be that, like birth, death is not an end, but a transition to something totally different from anything we know or have experienced so far?

If our physical side can be recycled into earthly matter why couldn’t our spiritual side be recycled as well…into maybe a pool of spiritual energy…

Twins, the original womb mates.

So is there really an afterlife?

That don’t sound too bad.

This is a bit deep for the comics.

We are the stuff of stars.

I’m off to the Body farm in Knoxville. So I will live forever, in a sense. When I decompose the bugs will feast and the birds will eat the bugs and so on and so on.

A raindrop forms in the diffusion of the clouds and falls into the diffusion of the sea.

As it falls, it thinks “This is what life is, this is who I am.”

All the water is one water.

We are just bubbles in the stream of life, emerging from the stream briefly, then returning when we pop.

Thus squirms the worms.

Guess Vern is an atheist, never knew. Wonder if T Lewis and Michael Fry are?

No rest for the wicked, RJ.

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy is created in the universe and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, ever vibration, every BTU of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid the energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

https://www.iflscience.com/ask-physicist-speak-your-funeral-0-23899